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Fashion Week vs. Mardi Gras It’s been six Oh, I’ve got stories, most of them years since I unprintable, but this column is more about began my emcee preparation and endurance than the sort duties at Greensof things one sees over the bar during boro Fashion Mardi Gras, which most regular people Week. I’ve been wouldn’t even believe if they heard them. around since the And my Mardi Gras experiences prove very first one in useful when girding myself for this very

by Brian Clarey September 2014, different sort of marathon. and every year — just like birthdays, anFirst, I strip my schedule of everything niversaries and Valentine’s Day — it seems superfluous, which includes things like to catch me off guard when it finally lands. sleeping and eating, and I prep my wardIt’s a pretty grueling week for all robe well in advance. I apologize to those involved: seven days of events that, as the closest to me for my impending scarcity week progresses, — these days it’s my run later and later family and coworkinto the night. Most ers, but in the old Greensboro Fashion Week of us have other days it was girlruns Thursday-Saturday at the concerns like jobs, friends and drinking Cultural Arts Center in Greensbusinesses and buddies, and then I families to tend to, boro. For more information go to gird myself for the but we push it all long haul, resolving greensborofashionweek.com aside in the name of to do whatever it fashion. takes to get to the The closest apfinish line without proximation I can make is to Mardi Gras, letting down the team. another one of life’s beautiful interruptions Both events involve resigning myself to that usurps everything else for all involved. the larger enterprise, working to the point I spent the first 15 years of my profesof exhaustion, eating anxiety and swallowsional life as a bartender in New Orleans, ing nervous energy. and I survived eight carnival seasons on St. And both are enormously gratifying.

Charles Avenue, the front lines for what The biggest difference, for me, is that is the largest, most decadent, most allI don’t know if I could make it through encompassing cultural event in the history another Mardi Gras behind the bar. Comof the United States. pared to that, Fashion Week is easy.

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CITY LIFE Oct. 3-6, 2019

by Savi Ettinger

THURSDAY October 3

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Proper Pronouns @ Wake Forest University (W-S), 7 p.m.

Collective Rage @ Salem College (WS), 8 p.m.

Collective Rage: a Play in Five Betties tells the tale of five different women who share the same name. The Pierrette Players, the Triad’s oldest all-women’s theater company, stages this show of dark humor throughout the weekend. Find out more at salem.edu.

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Emerging Designers Showcase @ Greensboro Cultural Center, 7 p.m.

This film showing kicks off the Out at the Movies International LGBT Film Fest. The Byrum Welcome Center screens this film about transgender ordained ministers in North Carolina. Find the full schedule for the festival at outatthemovies.org.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring @ The Carolina Theatre (GSO), 7 p.m.

GSOFW This evening of Greensboro Fashion Week includes a lineup of designers on the rise, along with the winners of Thursday night’s college designer competition.

Enjoy cocktails and a red-carpet experience, with TCB Publisher Brian Clarey as emcee. Find the full lineup of events at greensborofashionweek.com.

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Ben Singer @ Scuppernong Books (GSO), 7 p.m.

For First Friday in Downtown Greensboro, Scuppernong Books presents the next installment of their monthly Artist in Residence series with Ben Singer. Singer offers a look into the behind-the-scenes of composing music. Find the event on Facebook.

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Fall Dance @ UNCSA (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

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Follow Frodo on his journey from the Shire when he faces the task of throwing the powerful One Ring into Mount Doom. Dress as your favorite hobbit, elf or wizard during this weekend-long run of the Lord of the Rings series. Find the event on Facebook.

Mamma Mia @ High Point Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

This Abba-filled musical centers around Sophie, a 20-year-old bride-to-be who hopes to have her father walk her down the aisle. With little idea of who he actually is, Sophie invites three possible parents with the aim of finding out. Learn more at highpointtheatre.com.

Witness the choreographic feats of UNCSA’s dancers as they perform a sampler show of contemporary styles. The pieces, all by UNCSA faculty and guest artists, include a work specifically commissioned for the college’s senior class. Find the event on Facebook.

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Gallery Hop @ Sixth and Trade Streets (W-S), 7 p.m.

SUNDAY October 6

Gregory Amos @ Center City Park (GSO), 2 p.m.

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SATURDAY October 5

Brews with the NC Zoo @ Fiddlin’ Fish Brewing Company (W-S), 2 p.m.

Bring a blanket and a basket of food for a relaxing afternoon of a jazz picnic in the park. Gregory Amos, a saxophonist from North Carolina and A&T graduate, performs a dynamic set. Find the event on Facebook.

Fall Festival @ Ingram’s Strawberry Farms (HP), 1 p.m.

Hop on a tractor ride to a pumpkin patch or shop around a vendor’s market during the third annual Fall Festival. Crisp apples and live music usher in autumn with a day of fun at the farm. Find the event on Facebook.

Art in the Arboretum @ Greensboro Arboretum, 12 p.m.

Halloween Party w/ The Velvet Devils + (TBA) Saturday, November 2nd The Devils Notebook, Zodiac Panthers and Night Terrors Saturday, November 9th Irata w/ Caustic Casanova Sunday, November 10th Cimorelli (early show)

WEEKLY EVENTS

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Every Wednesday

Open Mic Hosted by DC Carter This outdoor one-day gallery features more than 40 different artists. Interact with certain art exhibits, or wander through the gardens and listen to live performances. Learn more on Facebook.

Every Sunday

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Art Lives Here @ Revolution Mill (GSO), 6 p.m.

One-hundred-and-five artists display art for this silent auction. The night aims to raise funds for the Hirsch Center for Creativity and Wellness, a nonprofit that provides cancer patients and survivors with creative outlets and self-help tools.

Learn more at hirschwellnessnetwork.org.

Shagwüf w/ Tide Eyes Friday, October 18th The session: ED E. RUGER w/ PHILLIE PHR3SH, BLACK RAIN NAS T, KANVAS MUSIK, MAC DEE & VO=KAL Saturday, October 26th Zombie Prom 2019: Mightier Than Me, 2nd Today, Vintage Falcons, & ChristiNZakk

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The North Carolina Zoo pops by Fiddlin’ Fish to a chance to try a new pale ale named after NC’s state frog, the Pine Barren. Grab some grub from the Slanted Shed and the Chicken Coop, or meet some interesting animals. Find the event on Facebook.

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Big Sip Craft Beverage Fest @ BB&T Ballpark (W-S), 1 p.m.

This festival fills the BB&T Ballpark with a selection of craft beer vendors. Alongside the brews, a cookoff against chili and stew chefs adds a bit of competition and some savory flavors to the afternoon. Find the event on Facebook.

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Explore the various art galleries of downtown Winston-Salem during October’s Gallery Hop. The Downtown Arts District Association reveals exhibits at their North Trade Street Arts and the gallery at the Benton, while Studio 7 invites guests to an art show about nature. Find the event on Facebook.

Julian Sizemore series Julian brings out weekly guests

221 Summit Ave. Greensboro, NC Across from The Greensboro historical museum

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Poke

by Sayaka Matsuoka It means “to slice,” and it’s popping up all over the country.

Poke, or the unofficial food of Hawaii, has seen an incredible spike in popularity over the last couple of years. Traditionally made with raw ahi tuna cut into chunks, marinated with soy sauce, some sesame oil and a sprinkling of green onion, shops boasting the dish have recently made their way into the Triad.

Benny Zeng, the owner of ZC Hawaiian in Greensboro, trained for about three months in Hawaii before opening up his shop here a few years ago. His rendition of poke is pretty close to the traditional variety. Simply seasoned with soy sauce, sesame oil and sriracha, ZC’s poke is made up of bright-red tuna and chopped bits of white and green onion.

He says that while some people are still wary about eating raw fish, poke has become one of the restaurant’s most popular dishes. He says his is like a marinated salad and comes with a mound of rice and a macaroni salad.

Other shops have started to advertise poke bowls, in which customers can choose a base, a protein and toppings, not unlike a Chipotle bowl, just with fish and Asian and Hawaiian flair.

The exact origins of poke are unknown but historians trace the popularity of the dish back to the 1970s in Hawaii and the early 2010s for us on the mainland. Many guess that poke began as a native Hawaiian dish, born out of easy access to fresh tuna. When Japanese workers arrived on the island in the 1800s, a “mash-up of Hawaiian flavors and Japanese donburi became popular in restaurants in Hawaii,” said Hawaiian professor Kealalokahi Losch in a 2017 Washington Post article.

Growing up, my dad, who is a trained sushi chef, often made us maguro zuke dons, or marinated tuna rice bowls for lunch or dinner. Sound familiar?

When poke spots started popping up in the state a couple of years ago, it was like seeing an old friend. Here was a food that I could relate to. Given that there aren’t as many

Japanese restaurants in the South as in the Northeast or West Coast, I was excited to try anything resembling or reminding me of Japanese food. But don’t get it twisted; it’s a Hawaiian thing.

“These kinds of restaurants create opportunities for folks who otherwise may never taste poke, to expose their taste buds to something very different,” said US Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) in the Washington Post piece. “The real thing comes from Hawaii, as far as I’m concerned.”

For now, there are at least three spots in Greensboro where you can find poke and a few in Winston-Salem and High Point as well.

It’s fresh, it’s healthy and it’s delicious.

Go see what all the fuss is about.

Greensboro poke spots: ZC Hawaiian, 2224 Golden Gate Dr. Poke Bowl, 116 N Elm St. Thai Corner Kitchen 2, 3741 Battleground Ave. #B Sushi Republic, 329 Tate St. Winston-Salem poke spots: Poke Star, Hanes Mall Hakkachow, 615 St. George Square Ct. Ahi Tuna

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High Point poke spot: Juice Batch, 2758 NC-68

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150 pieces on four walls

by Brian Clarey

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“The problem with this installation,” says Jack Stratton, “is that they want us to use “When it’s hanging on the wall,” he says, “the wall will be pink behind it because I Command Strips.” painted with pink day-glo on the back.”

That’s a rule from the owners at Revolution Mill, where the Hirsch Wellness Network’s There’s a piece from one of his students, and another from a colleague at UNCG. annual event, the Art Lives Here silent auction, a fundraiser to support its “healing com“This piece is going to start a bidding war,” he says, gesturing to a small canvas munity network” of cancer patients, survivors and their depicting two characters in traditional Japanese garb loved ones. frozen in an elegant dance. It’s by Yoko Yoshimatsu, And that’s not the only challenge with this installation. painted in the style of the Italian Renaissance.

The Art Lives Here auction and opening Stratton is charged with hanging almost 150 pieces from The small charcoal and paper collage on wood by Jon takes place on Saturday at 6 p.m. near 104 Greensboro-based artists on just four walls in this Rollins should go, too. the Hirsch Wellness offices in Revoluconjunction of hallways on the first floor.

“This guy is from High Point,” says Judith Kastner, He’s already got pencil marks on the walls, affixed who helped curate the show. “He’s pretty well known; tion Mill. Tickets are still available at some Command Strips for smaller pieces, and now he’s he’s shown in a lot of major museums.” hirschwellnessnetwork.org. assaying all this white space, squaring it with the stacks Last year was the first time the show sold out, and of canvases on a long table. they’re hoping for a repeat this weekend. But Kastner is “It takes so long to get started,” he says. “But once seeing most of these pieces for the first time. you’ve got it laid out, it goes faster.”

“Half the pieces come in without wires; they’re not Stratton has been hanging this show for years, as he did for decades when he was in clean, small things,” she says. “We wound up with 150 pieces and we didn’t know what charge of the Weatherspoon Art Museum on UNCG’s campus. Technically, he says, he’s we had until Monday. We have five days to get it looking good.” retired. But he still teaches classes, and he’s got a piece in the show — a small abstract watercolor.

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Some of the pieces await placement on the walls at Revolution Mill in preparation for the Art Lives Here auction.

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First responders, cops and detention officers joined a Facebook group set up by a violent militia leader

by Jordan Green Dozens of first responders, detention officers, police and enlisted military personnel joined or were added to a Facebook group set up by a notorious militia leader where administrators and members shared content promoting violence against Muslims, undocumented immigrants and other groups.

Chris Hill, a Marine veteran who leads the III% Security Force, attracted international media attention last year for a video depicting members shooting firearms interspersed with images of Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor in Georgia, with text pledging that if she won they would respond with a “war against all domestic enemies.” A rival militia network, the Three Percenters — Originals denounced Hill as an “anti-government extremist,” and denounced III% Security force for destroying a replica of a mosque during a training exercise.

Hill set up the Roll Call page as a public Facebook group in January to mobilize support for an upcoming Nov. 9 rally in Washington DC and northern Virginia to promote the Second Amendment, Trump’s border wall, voter ID and abortion restrictions. Amidst a bitter leadership battle and an organizational schism, Hill temporarily shut down the Roll Call page in late August and then resurrected it as a secret Facebook group. Content shared on the Roll Call page as well as Hill’s own Facebook page over the past nine months has frequently promoted violence against Muslims, undocumented immigrants, abortion doctors and Democratic politicians.

A months-long investigation by Triad City Beat revealed that members of the Roll Call Facebook group set up by Hill included • An EMT from eastern Kentucky who publicly identified himself in a comment thread on one of Hill’s Facebook Live videos as an “armed EMT” and member of Kentucky Security Force III%; • An EMT who has worked for multiple first-responder agencies in central Georgia who commented, “Guns up” at the beginning of an incendiary video hosted by Hill and his militia associates, and who continues to maintain ties with Hill; • A police officer in upstate New York who commented, “Guns up,” on the Roll Call page, uses a Medieval crusader image as his Facebook profile, and has

expressed negative feelings towards undocumented immigrants on social media; • An EMS volunteer in New Jersey who made a comment on the Roll Call page that appears to express sympathy with a Louisiana police officer fired for saying US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot; • A lieutenant firefighter in eastern Ohio who uses a Confederate flag with the text “Support your local whiteboys” as his Facebook cover photo, and makes posts on his personal Facebook page that are disparaging towards Muslims and undocumented immigrants; • A volunteer with another eastern Ohio fire department whose personal SCREENSHOT Militia leaders Chris Hill (left) and Bill Hartwell discuss plans for Facebook page displays memes that the upcoming Nov. 9 rally on Facebook Live in June. disparage Muslims; and • Firefighters in Massachusetts and Earlier this year, an investigation by in elections and restricting abortion, Michigan, along with an enlisted memReveal found that hundreds of activewhile vaguely threatening that “if no ber of the US Army and a detention duty and retired law enforcement officers remedies are timely available, we the officer in Florida, are active in other across the country are members of “antipeople, without further notice, may seek militia groups.

Islam, misogynistic or anti-government all remedies afforded to us” under the First responders, law enforcement and militia groups on Facebook.”

Constitution. To diffuse the focus even other public servants have come under further, organizers added a pro-Confedincreasing scrutiny in recent months for UNS ARE GONE, erate “Heritage Not Hate” event at the support of violent, right-wing extremism AND YOU’RE ISLAMIC Lincoln Memorial. on social media.

OVERNIGHT’ While the militia movement has traIn July, firefighter Caleb Folwell was ditionally maintained a skeptical stance fired from the Julian Fire Department The major thrust of the national towards federal power, the election of and North Chatham Fire Department, Second Amendment rally scheduled for Donald Trump reordered its priorities: both in North Carolina, after posting on Nov. 9 — which has undergone at least Last fall, Hill told a Danish reporter: “If Facebook that immigrants in detention two name changes — is opposing so[the Democrats] win they win the House should be “exterminated,” calling for called “red flag laws,” and the Senate, they are going to move the fantasized violence which allow police and forward with impeachment for some to be broadcast “over family members to petibogus, bullshit reason. If they succeed in ‘Foundational to Mexican national TV tion the courts for the impeaching President Trump, then we to send a message that their ideology is the authority to temporarily will back Trump.” Asked to elaborate, if you cross illegally you remove firearms from Hill said, “With a use of force, if need belief that virtually die.” a person deemed to be be.”

In the same month, the whole rest of the a danger to others or The militia movement emerged in the Gretna, La. police Ofthemselves.

The chosen early 1990s as the collapse of the Soviet world has been taken ficer Charles Rispoli location of the rally on Union eliminated communism as a credwas fired for writing over by a globalist, the Arlington Memorial ible threat, and paranoia about globalon Facebook that Rep. Bridge is symbolic in ism, embodied in the United Nations tyrannical governOcasio-Cortez, an the minds of the rally and multilateral cooperation, became a outspoken Democratic ment.’ organizers of a line bepreoccupation of the far right. lawmaker, “needs a tween the more lenient “Foundational to their ideology is the – Mark Pitcavage round… and I don’t gun laws in Virginia and belief that virtually the whole rest of the mean the kind she used more restrictive laws on world has been taken over by a globalto serve.” Another ofthe books in Washington DC. ist, tyrannical government,” said Mark ficer, Angelo Varisco was also fired for Reflecting a tension between liberPitcavage, a senior researcher at the liking the post. tarian and authoritarian tendencies in Anti-Defamation League’s Center on And in August, Capt. Thomas Woodthe militia movement, the demands Extremism. “They call it the ‘New World word resigned after driving his truck published on the Roll Call page layered Order.’ They see the United States as the into a group of Jewish protesters outside on a host of conservative and Trumpist last bastion of freedom, and they believe a Rhode Island detention facility that causes, including building the border the US government is actively collabocontracts with US Immigration Customs wall, requiring photo ID to participate rating with the New World Order. Their Enforcement.

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Chris Pickle, an EMT in central Georgia, comments on a Facebook Live video hosted by Chris Hill (not pictured) and other militia leaders in March.

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of nationality, race, creed or status.”

It instructs practitioners “to use social media in a responsible and professional manner that does not discredit, dishonor or embarrass an EMS organization, coworkers, other healthcare practitioners, patients, individuals or the community at large.”

The Firefighter Code of Ethics developed by the National Society of Executive Fire Officers similarly calls upon firefighters to pledge to “never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sexual preference, medical condition or handicap,” and to “responsibly use social networking… in a manner that does not discredit, dishonor or embarrass my organization, the fire service and the public.”

Chris Pickle, the EMT in Georgia who commented on Chris Hill’s Facebook Live video in March, declined to comment for this story. In late August, Pickle commented on Hill’s personal Facebook page to inform him that he had to leave the Roll Call page because a news reporter called him and asked him how he would treat Muslims.

“I told him to F off,” Pickle said.

Lee Conner, the director of Telfair County EMS in Georgia, said Pickle resigned from the agency for personal reasons in early August.

Pickle is a volunteer with EMS in neighboring Wheeler County, according to Steve Adams, the director there.

“If it happened, I would immediately excuse him from doing anything in Wheeler County,” Adams said.

Conner said after Pickle left Telfair County EMS, he went to work for Johnson & Johnson Ambulance, a private firm based in Uvalda. Cecil Walls, the manager at Johnson & Johnson, told

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Ohio who has since broken with Hill to Hill enthusiastically endorsed the idea. form the American Constitutional Elites, “Let’s do a fucking Three Percent commented in response: “Fuck a foot in patrol in Dearborn, Michigan or Islamthe ass. I bet a bullet in the head would burg, New York,” he said. “We show up, pass a clear fucking message.” kick ass, and drink cold beer when the Roughly 15 minutes later, imagining sun goes down.” a war on American soil, Hill and his coPeter Simi, an associate professor horts conjured a sinister Muslim enemy. at Chapman University who studies “There are live targets,” Hill said. extremist groups and violence, said it’s “The enemy is here and want to fucking unrealistic to think that first responders destroy us and our way of life. When can hold bigoted views without their bithey get froggy and jump, we’re gonna ases bleeding over into the performance put ’em on their ass.” of their professional duties.

As the discussion veered into a fevered “If you have really strongly held clarion about Muslims supposedly imbeliefs that bias you in favor of certain posing sharia law from bases in Deargroups, that’s a problem,” Simi said. “If born, Mich. and Islamburg, NY, Hill you have strongly held views that involve interjected, “You saw that New Zealand hatred and disgust, that’s even more of shooting, right?” a problem. Disgust is important because Greg Scott, another militia activist, when you feel disgust, you want to disopined that Brenton Tarrant, who livetance yourself as much as possible from streamed a slaughter that. If they’re disgusted of 51 people at two by certain immigrant mosques in Christgroups or disgusted by church, New Zealand Muslims, are they going ‘Let’s do a fucking on March 15 “was to render the same care?

Three Percent patrol Is it going to delay deciprovoked.”

Hill was going in sions that they make? in Dearborn, Michia different direction, Are they going to be gan or Islamburg, suggesting the massacre less sensitive? Are they might be a false flag. going to give priority to New York.’

“Wait,” he said. one group or another? I – Chris Hill “Within 24 hours all think these are reasontheir semiautomatic able questions to ask an rifles are gone, and it’s EMT or firefighter that an Islamic country, like espouses these kind of just that quick. One shooting, one falseviews.” flag operation. One psy-ops. Guns are The Code of Ethics adopted by the gone, and you’re Islamic overnight.”

National Association of Emergency Hank Steward, Skylar’s father, comMedical Technicians in 2013 addresses mented that he had recently proposed both bias and social media use. The code “Muslim community patrols” on “comstates that EMS practitioners should ms,” the voice communication channel “provide services based on human need, the militia network utilizes through the with compassion and respect for human Zello app. dignity, unrestricted by consideration

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idea is that once the Second Amendment is compromised and their guns are taken away, the United States will be absorbed into the New World Order.”

Pitcavage said militia activists had gravitated to marginal political candidates like Ron Paul in the past, but Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was the first time they aligned with anyone who was truly viable. Trump’s election effectively realigned the priorities of the militia movement.

“They strongly support Donald Trump,” Pitcavage said. “A lot of them really emphasize from 2017 less opposition to the federal government, and they direct their anger more on immigrants, Muslims and antifa. The militia movement has transferred its anger from president as the symbol of federal government to the enemies of Trump, as they see them. Should a Democrat be elected in 2020, it will go right back to the president.”

The synthesis of Second Amendment advocacy with hysterical Islamophobia, xenophobia, anti-abortion sentiment and anti-Democrat hate was on vivid display in a Facebook Live video posted by Hill in March.

Chris Pickle, an EMT who has worked for three different EMS agencies in rural, central Georgia over the past year, commented at the 2:07 mark of the video, “Guns up.” What followed over the next 54 minutes was an orgy of animosity towards various imagined foes.

“If it takes dragging a [abortion] doctor away from a table to save that unborn child that’s 15 minutes away from its birthday, then drag that fucking doctor away from the table, and yeah, take him outside and whup his ass,” Hill said.

Skylar Steward, a militia activist from

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Chris Hill, then leader of the III% Security Force militia network, speaks on Facebook Live in June as Bill Hartwell points a rifle at the camera.

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Conner said Pickle’s social-media activity “needs to be addressed,” adding that it doesn’t put the agencies where he’s worked in a good light.

“It’s a brotherhood like law enforcement or firefighting,” he said. “We have to treat everybody, from a minor child to a Muslim to a KKK member to inmates with the same level of care. It doesn’t change. Anything less would be a failure.

“Anybody showing a bias towards a race, religion or creed — we can’t do that,” Conner added. “You set your county up for a lawsuit. It will be brought to a supervisor’s attention. You can’t have bias in this line of work.”

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TCB confirmed that 11 current or former members of the Roll Call group are currently employed by fire departments, six by EMS agencies, three by detention facilities, and two by police departments.

One is currently enlisted in the Army.

One is a member of the Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol. One firefighter in upstate New York retired in August.

The roughly two dozen confirmed first responders, law enforcement, detention officers and military personnel identified

by TCB were among more than 5,300 who joined or were added to the Roll Call group. Not all the public servants identified for this story actively participated in the Roll Call group. TCB’s investigation found that roughly half of the larger group of 24 either participated in the Roll Call group or posted content on their personal Facebook pages that exhibited bias. Agency representatives or the employees themselves confirmed that a handful received counseling as a result of TCB’s inquiry.

A much larger cohort of members on the Roll Call page identified themselves as military veterans and retired law enforcement. The group has also attracted members of Bikers for Trump; the Hiwaymen, a hybrid militia-neoConfederate group; the Proud Boys, a male chauvinist group known for street brawling; Back Woods Survivalist Squad, an anti-Muslim network; and adherents of the QAnon conspiracy movement.

Jason Randall, an EMT at Powell County EMS — which serves Natural Bridge and Red River Gorge, two of the most breathtaking natural areas in eastern Kentucky — joined the Roll Call page in early July. On July 27, Randall commented on a Facebook Live video

Jason Randall, an EMT with Powell County EMS in Kentucky, comments during a Facebook Live video hosted by Chris Hill in late July.

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hosted by Chris Hill: “Armed EMT Responses from EMS squads and fire Kentucky Security Force III%.” departments to inquiries about employFollowing several attempts to contact ees’ involvement with the Roll Call page him and an inquiry with Powell County or expression of bias on social media EMS, Randall eventually called TCB varied widely. on Aug. 30 and said he had left the Roll Stephanie Solanka Clouse, a volunCall page and had disassociated himself teer at Glenwood Pochuck Volunteer with Chris Hill.

Ambulance Corps in New Jersey, joined “I didn’t realize that guy was a radical the Roll Call page in January. On July nut,” Randall said.

23, Clouse commented on a news article Randall said he and a group of friends posted on the Roll Call page about the who like to get together to target-shoot Louisiana police officer fired for sugreceived an invitation to join the III% gesting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Security Force network. He said after should be shot. Some commenters wrote watching some of Hill’s Facebook Live that they agreed with the officer. videos and communicating with other Ryan Netherton, who made the post, members through the network’s Zello wrote, “I know. This is exactly why I’m channel, he and his friends decided to going to try my hardest to get into jourleave. nalism because I’m tired “I was embarrassed, of seeing shit like this.

I’ll be honest,” Randall If everyone could get on said. “Once I found my page and share my out what he was about, post about it and pass ‘It’s just a group that I was angry because it this along it would be took me so long to figgreatly appreciated.” jokes and memes ure out his true colors.”

Clouse responded to and things like that.’

Randall, who teaches Netherton: “Your voice – Ryan Netherton a concealed-carry class will be heard by many if and trains EMTs in you create an Instagram Kentucky, said that account! Encourage although he doesn’t like factual conversation!” the idea of people ilReached by TCB, legally entering the country, he feels conClouse denied making the comment, fident that his professional commitment and said she wasn’t interested in seeing to preserving life trumps any personal the evidence. feelings he might have about patients.

Kevin Duffy, the chief operating of“I’m human: I cry when I don’t win ficer for Glenwood Pochuck Volunteer at CPR,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if Ambulance Corps, requested screenshots they’re this druggy or Hispanic. You documenting Clouse’s involvement with don’t ask on the radio: ‘Is this a Muslim the Roll Call page. After reviewing them, patient?’ That’s a human being.” he said he would take no action.

Randall said he received a written Ryan Netherton added Steve Nethwarning from his employer as a result of erton, a firefighter employed by South TCB’s inquiry and was worried he might Oldham Fire Department outside of lose his job.

Louisville, Ky., to the Roll Call group

in April. In late June, Jason Minnar, a firefighter trainee at the department, also joined the group. Minnar’s personal Facebook page displays Three Percenter symbols, signifying affinity with a subset of the militia movement that conceives modern-day Second Amendment proponents as the political heirs of the American patriots who threw off British colonial rule.

The day after the Aug. 12, 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. Minnar posted a conspiracy-laden essay positing that the violence at the event was orchestrated by George Soros using antifa and the Ku Klux Klan as pawns to discredit “constitutionalists,” with the active collusion of law enforcement and the news media.

Minnar could not be reached for this story, but Netherton returned a message left at the fire department.

“It’s just a group that jokes and memes and things like that,” Netherton said.

Asked if he was concerned that his membership in a Facebook group where people shared violent and bigoted content might undermine public trust in his agency, Netherton responded, “I’m done with this conversation.”

Following TCB’s inquiry, Chief Edward Turner said, “I talked to them. I don’t think they’re breaking any of my policies.”

Asked if South Oldham Fire Department maintains any policies to address non-discrimination or social media use, Turner responded, “No, I don’t have none.”

Triad City Beat is co-publishing this story with other members of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, including Raw Story, Detroit Metro Times, Folio Weekly and Orlando Weekly. To read a longer version of the story, visit triad-city-beat.com.

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Interruption of medication throws musician into tailspin

The photograph posted on his Facebook page shows three rows of high-back chairs, upholstered couches and stools arrange in semi-circles around a mic stand and amplifier, waiting for listeners, waiting for sound to fill the air and connect hearts.

But the show will not go on.

On Sunday, Britt Harper Uzzell, who

by Jordan Green makes music under the name Snüzz, had planned to hold a concert at his house in rural Stokes County.

Over the past three decades, Snüzz has played in seminal North Carolina bands like Bus Stop and International Orange. As a guitarist, he’s gone on the road with luminaries like Ben Folds, and played with everyone from Jeffrey Dean Foster to Ray “Walrus” Loughran. But he’s also a whip-smart, wry and affecting songwriter and solo artist, not to mention a champion and mentor to numerous musicians in the Triad and Triangle. His song “We’re Better Than This” is one of the bona fide anthems of the “Moral Monday” movement.

About 10 years ago, Snüzz was diagnosed with Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia, a rare disease.

“It’s a blood cancer,” Snüzz said during a recent phone interview.

“I’ve got a devil that grows in my bone marrow.”

He’s five months into a 12-month prescription for Calquence, a medication made by AstraZeneca that is basically chemotherapy COURTESY About 10 years ago Snüzz was diagnosed with a in a pill form. If he goes without it for more than a couple days, his PHOTO rare blood cancer. body and muscles ache all over and he can’t get out of bed.

On Sept. 20, after placing a refill order, Snüzz’s shipment of he’s unable to work and bring in an income.

Calquence didn’t come in the mail. He called the drug-maker to let “It’s a conflicting feeling,” he said. “I’m angry at our healthcare them know he hadn’t received the package and was just checking system — the way drug companies charge exorbitant costs. Every to make sure it had been sent. other industrialized nation has single-payer healthcare for all. You “Oh, your prescription got cancelled,” the representative said. shouldn’t have to be in a situation where you have to fight to get After Snüzz and his doctor called to protest, the pharmaceutical the therapies you need. AstraZeneca put me through the ringer. company agreed to send a 15-day emergency supply. When Snüzz But I don’t think I’d be alive right now if not for the medication. No told them it was unacceptable for them to ship the medication by one should have to go through what I’m going through. It’s unfair; Monday, they agreed to deliver it by UPS on Sept. 28. it’s cruelty on every level.”

I spoke to Snüzz on Sept. 27. It was his first day Snüzz has let go of the idea that he needs to be without medication. He doesn’t fully trust that he able to perform to feel happy. On good days, he would have the medication the next day. And given can still find inspiration, sing, play the guitar and ‘I don’t think I the stress of the past week, it just didn’t seem like a record. And for that he credits the Calquence, bewould be alive good idea to go forward with the house show. (The cause there were times in the past when he couldn’t Medication did arrive on Sept. 28. On Sunday, a right now if not for even get out of bed. representative called from AstraZeneca to con“I’m still happy and inspired,” he says. “When I the medication.’ firm that Snüzz had received the medication, and lose the ability to record and play and sing and all assured him that they were working to resolve the that, then it’s going to be a lot harder for me…. I – Britt Harper Udell, issue with his prescription.) know that’s coming. I have to take it one day at a aka Snüzz Then there’s the uncertainty of what comes next. time. But I already feel like in this life I’ve been a “AstraZeneca seems to be in chaos,” he said. winner. I’m happy and grateful that I was able to do “They’ve implemented some new system, and what I’ve done as long as I’ve been able to.” they’re having problems. My prescription was canceled. I think it There is a new song Snüzz has written that he’d like to sing for an was canceled errantly.” audience if he gets another chance. It’s called “Into Visions.”

AstraZeneca did not respond to a phone message left for this The verse goes like this: I’m into visions and things others can’t story. see/ I’m into visions, they’re waiting there for me/ I’m just a conduit, Snüzz said he feels gratitude and resentment towards the drug it’s not mine per se/ Cos I’m into visions, I see ’em every day. company all at the same time. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Then the chorus opens into an expansive release: I just want to Carolina, his insurer, refused to cover the treatment. He says he feel a part of something greater than myself, that’s bigger than myself. “groveled” before AstraZeneca, and they agreed to provide the He is, no doubt. And his many fans are part of it, too. medication for free. Without insurance, the treatments would normally cost $15,000 a month, and due to the ravages of the disease

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It all came gushing out this week in individuals — and it may not be — then a steady stream of filthy details and duty dictates we must begin impeachshocking developments from all levels, ment, no matter if there won’t be as if the executive branch of the federal enough votes in the Senate, no matter government had come down with a if Vice President Mike Pence becomes stomach virus, or maybe a bad case of president, no matter if it actually ends food poisoning. up helping Trump in 2020.

After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Impeachment is not about politics, or, (D-Calif.) called for an impeachment rather, it’s not supposed to be. Impeachinquiry last week based on President ment is about a failure to adhere to the Trump’s possibly treasonous request of principles of office. It’s about the sanctithe Ukrainian president — that is, to use ty of the United States government, the the Ukrainian government apparatus to rule of law, the state of our union. It’s take out Trump’s most-feared political about resolving a constitutional crisis; rival, Joe Biden — it was like somebody and like it or not we are in the middle of had pulled a cork. one right now.

Turns out Trump had Trump has threatened dispatched his personal civil war on his Twitter Like it or not, lawyer, Rudy Giuliani — feed. He wants to interview we are in the who holds no official govthe whistleblower, whose ernment position — to cut identity, as of press time, middle of a some of these deals. Turns is thankfully still unknown constitutional out Attorney General Bill — and which completely Barr has been asking fordefeats the purpose of crisis. eign governments — so far whistle-blowing.. Barr we know about Australia broke protocol by declinand Italy — to investigate the CIA, the ing to investigate the Ukraine phone call FBI and, yeah, Joe Biden, for weeks, if in which he himself was implicated — not months, if not years. At this point, the sort of conflict of interest that even nobody knows except Trump, Giuliani the cracker leprechaun Jeff Sessions unand Barr. derstood called for a recusal. Secretary Nutty conservatives have been crapof State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday said ping on about the “deep state” since that his staffers will ignore the CongresTrump got the nomination, but in fact sional subpoena issued this week. this is what a deep state looks like: a Sure, it’s a drastic measure and there shadow government operating without are no guarantees — impeachment is a oversight, carrying out transactions the process, not an outcome. But it’s time public is not supposed to know about. to expel this virus form the body politic, If this is still a nation of laws and not even if it breaks the toilet.

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Nik Snacks Modern meets Southern at this year’s Community Table

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he vibe felt different this year.

It may have been the trio of guys singing John Legend and Kings of Leon ballads to entertain the guests. It may have been the surprise of the masked,

by Nikki Miller-Ka dancing mime who twirled and contorted himself around the room as 120 people looked on. It also may have been the fact that the theme of the 9th Triad Local First Community Table was Modern Southern, and every aspect of the evening was indeed touched by this motif.

In the past, picturesque barns and farms on the outskirts of Guilford County provided the scenery for Triad Local First’s signature fundraising event Community Table. Battling the warm, wet weather and a ticking clock to feed hundreds of guests, long-revered chefs, cooks, assistants plated and their inspired dishes under dim lights. The scent of sweet haybales and the early-autumn breeze always marked the evening while dining under the night sky. This year, the breeze gave way to crisp, modern air-conditioning in a refurbished building adjacent to the vibrant hum of Center City. A fresh, young crowd gathered to celebrate local food, local businesses surrounded by patrons and consumers of the Triad’s bounty.

Eight area chefs created a cohesive menu using local ingredients as their muse and the Cadillac Service Garage as the backdrop. Featured chef Anders Benton, executive chef of GIA: Eat Drink Listen, gathered the group of relatively young, but very experienced culinary professionals.

Reminiscent of the Brat Pack or the late ’90s members of the Mickey Mouse Club, the chefs and restaurateurs looked like a determined, rag-tag group of young adults who are dedicated to their craft: accomplished culinarians bursting at the seams with talent, stamina and social media savvy to share with the world their skills.

Sunday’s dinner began with appetizers provided by GIA, which included crispy chicken livers garnished with crushed peanuts, orange-soy peanut sauce and bok-choy slaw, and mango-tuna ceviche on butter lettuce alongside cocktails from Fainting Goat Spirits and GIA Distillery. The handcrafted drinks included: Fisher’s Mule — Fisher’s rye whiskey, apple cider and ginger beer garnished with a dried apple chip and the Semi-Charmed Life, which has Emulsion gin, pineapple and lemon juices, lemongrass syrup, Aperol and bitters. GIA also presented cocktails blended with Francesca Grappa and Solera aged whiskey.

A smorgasbord of charcuterie, pickled vegetables, breads, cheese, canape and sauces covered an 8-foot table during the cocktail hour before dinner commenced. Outside in the courtyard, a cigar roller and biergarten from Little Brother Brewing and Haw River Farmhouse Ales mixed up the formal vibe.

Dinner service began as long rows of tables were

Corn and blueberry macaron by Brittany McGee of The Humble Bee Shoppe in Winston-Salem

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set with baskets of sliced bread from Bread Service, a microbakery owned by Jeff McCarthy in Greensboro, accompanied with wine from Raffaldini Vineyards and molded sticks of sourdough-fermented butter sprinkled with black smoked salt. Leading the charge, Benton, alongside Ryan Loftin of Ugly Dumplin NC, a pop-up supper club based in Winston-Salem, presented a

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Joyce Farms pheasant gallentine garnished with lactofermented figs and beautyberry from Sassafras Family Farm and jus. The whole bird is deboned, stuffed inside the skin and turned into a layered, chilled disk of fowl.

The second course, created by Kevin Cottrell and Lydia Greene of Machete GSO, included a study of beets: diced and barbecued red, golden, white-and-fuchsia striped

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Chioggia beets rested next to a root vegetable slaw on a dill crème fraiche. The main course, presented by Chris Blackburn of Coast and Steak Street in High Point and Nick Benshoff of Bandito Burrito in Greensboro prepared mole-braised oxtail garnished with jerk-spiced pickles, crisped hominy gnocchi and jus. Dessert was a sweet corn macaron with freeze dried blueberries and soft florets of meringue from Brittany McGee of Humble Bee Shoppe in Winston-Salem.

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CULTURE Documentary screenings reveal the human side of immigration

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young girl cries out for her father, the wails choking in her throat, causing her to gasp for air.

Six-year-old Adayanci Pérez, was just one of more than 2,500 children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which went into effect in late 2017 until June 2018.

“The Legacy of the ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy,” is a short, 10-minute documentary that follows the seldom-seen aftermath of the policy and its effects on young Adayanci. The film, along with four other works will be screened for free at the Parkway United Church of Christ in Winston-Salem on Thursday as a nationwide effort to bring awareness to immigrant stories through film.

A discussion will take place after the screening.

“I think that there’s so much that we’re inundated with coming from mainstream media that talks about numbers of immigrants coming in,” says Juan Miranda, an organizer with Siembra NC, a local immigrant-rights organization and a co-host of the screening. “We have politicians making remarks about the dangers of immigration, and sharing these stories really bring out the human side of migration. They speak personally about the stories of the families and their impacts. They humanize what’s become a political topic.”

The project, which is titled Stories Beyond Borders, is spearheaded

by Wilmington-based organization Working Films, which partners with filmmakers, nonprofits and grassroots organizations to tell human- and social justice-oriented stories. The five films span different lengths and each takes a distinct look at a different aspect of immigration and immigrant life.

“Santuario,” the longest at 24 minutes long, follows the story of Juana Luz Tobar Ortega, a Guatemalan refugee who took sanctuary at Greensboro’s St. Barnabas Episcopal Church to avoid deportation in 2017. The quiet film shows Ortega living in a small room at the church, spending her days crocheting, meeting with family members who visit her and congregating with members of the church. The film takes a look not only at Ortega’s situation but highlights other undocumented immigrants who have taken sanctuary, such as Minerva

Cisneros Garcia, a Mexican woman who was housed at Greensboro’s Congregational United Church of Christ until May of this year. The film leaves viewers with a sense of uncertainty, paralleling the stress of those who lead lives filled with fear from the impending threat of deportation.

In the most affecting film in the series, “The Legacy of the ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy,” viewers get an intimate look at the psychological effects that separation has on the young children impacted by the policy. The film, which includes interviews with Adayanci’s parents, classmates, teachers and a psychologist, focuses on a shy and reserved young girl whose parents say has COURTESY PHOTO In “The Legacy of ‘Zero Tolerance,’” viewers see the aftermath of the US been potentially irreparably immigartion policy separating children from their parents. changed by her experience.

According to the film, attorney about an OUI charge.

Adayanci was separated from her parents for three and a half Images of Abdi are paired with beautifully animated line months after she and her father crossed the border into the drawings that capture Abdi and his fiance’s feelings for each United States after leaving Guatemala in search of a better other as they communicate through phone calls from the jail life. Her father, Hugo Vicente, was deported a few weeks after where Abdi is being held. entering the country but Adayanci was kept at an unnamed “I hope that these stories inspire action,” Miranda says. “It family member’s home in Michigan. Clips from phone calls has to go beyond feeling sadness, or anger or pity for people. reveal Adayanci’s pain during the separation.

It’s about people who are very vulnerable. Hopefully people “She was a very active girl,” says Claudia Rodriguez, one feel inspired to take on that duty to fight along their sides.” of Adayanci’s schoolteachers in the film. “She is not the girl I Not all of the films have such bleak messages. stopped seeing five months ago.”

The fourth film in the series, “The Dream Riders,” follows Initially, the family didn’t even a group of Asian-American imknow that Adayanci was suffering migrants who have decided to from PTSD because the clinical embark on a 1,708-mile bike ride Stories Beyond Borders will be report she brought home was writfrom Seattle to San Diego, which ten in English. The family lives in a screened for free at the Parkway they’ve called the Journey 2 Justice, rural village without access to the United Church of Christ in Winstonas a way to spread awareness for proper mental healthcare that the immigrants. The final film, “UnSalem on Thursday.

A discussion will young girl needs to recover from docuJoy!,” spans only a few minher trauma. take place after the screening. To find utes but emphasizes the idea that Shots of Adayanci surrounded by out more about the event, watch the undocumented people are some her classmates as she crouches in of the most resilient, powerful, trailer or learn how to host your own a corner of a room, tears streaminspiring individuals in the country ing down her face, flash across the screening, visit workingfilms.org/ by showing scenes of individuals screen towards the end of the film. stories-beyond-borders. persevering in their daily lives as Before the piece closes, a single they work, walk their dogs, dance sentence appears before viewers. or simply laugh.

“More than 400 children sepa“One of the goals is that we rated from their parents by the US government have not been wanted to leave people with a feeling of empowerment,” says reunited with their families.”

Andy Myers, the senior campaign coordinator for Working “Not a Citizen,” the second film in the series, focuses on the Films. “Like yes, it is bad, but here is what people are doing. story of Abdi Ali, a 28-year-old Somalian refugee from WestThe films are just one part of the event. After the films are brook, Maine, who was detained by immigrations and customs over, there is discussion so people can find out what to do enforcement in a Portland courthouse while meeting with his next.”

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unter Levinsohn builds a States, long nails campfire from newspaper in the tacking them to middle of the Guilford College important places Art Gallery. in Phoenix’s life.

She folds each page of the New York She mentions that Times and metaphorically lights it ablaze connections remain with a piece of neon orange duct tape on important to her, each end. Facing away from the paper and to her identity as flame sits a simple, gray lawn chair. a woman. Redux, to Inside the chair’s cupholder, an editorial her, embodies those hides away, rolled up. connections, much “It talks about, by doing nothing,” like its predecesLevinsohn explains, “you are contributsor and the artistic ing to the cruelty and inhumanity of this movement it took time.” influence from.

This seat, Levinsohn says, is not some“It was really the where the viewer should probably sit. beginning of feminist Levinsohn’s piece, one among a dozen, art, or women in art fills the Guilford College Art Gallery in making a claim to an exhibit titled Twelve Places: Redux. being female and usThe show, which opened on Sept. 20, ing that as a part of revamps a similar show of women’s art their subject matter,” held in 1979 — 40 years ago — at the Art she says.

School in Carrboro.

Virginia Tyler, a The original Twelve Places involved a member of what she dozen female artists from Center/Galcalls the “second lery, an all-women’s group of artists wave” of Center/ who worked out of the Triangle in the Gallery, also sees art late ‘70s. The collective gathered as a as a connector. Her response to a lecture from Lucy Lippard metalworking piece, — an author and art critic who focused “Tribute to the God on feminist issues — during her visit to Tree III”, combines a UNC’s campus in 1978. Like a piece from practice of creating the early ’70s by Judy Chicago, “The Dinpapercasts of trees ner Party,” which utilized tableware to with her experidiscuss women’s history, Twelve Places ence of studying featured each woman using a chair and metalcasting in the wall nearby to represent herself.

Ghana. The slabs of Now, the reworking of the original patterned bronze exhibit features many of the same branch up to the ceilwomen who showcased their artwork, ing, modeled after a like Levinsohn, as well as other origiparticular tree found nal members of Center/Gallery along in Kurofrofrom Vilwith women they have mentored over lage, Ghana, whose the year. While some omit the chair bark can be used to BLAIR GRAY Virginia Tyler’s “Junkanoo Rosa” quilts together her experience as a Bahamian woman idea, many seats still remain scattered make a fever-reducthrough the lens of the annual Bahamian festival holiday. throughout Guilford’s art gallery. ing tea.

In this rendition, Koala Phoenix “Art, for me,” Tyler bold outlines form patterns around the border of a tapesreplaces her original antique oak chair says, “is not a solitary experience.” try, with fringe hanging from the sides. The shapes collage with a transTyler, a mentor herself, finds the together into faces and flowers, which sprawl across a bold parent one. creative conversation extending, with yellow backdrop.

A mannequin the inclusion of the newest genera“Junkanoo Rosa” sits on the opposite wall as “Tribute to the Twelve Places: Redux runs through torso rests tion in Twelve Places: Redux. One of God Tree III.” Gray says displaying her work nearby the work of on the seat, a her students, Blair Gray, hangs her the woman who taught her means the show will not end after December 15 in the Guilford College kaleidoscope work up on the front wall. Gray the closing date.

Art Gallery. For more information, of silk strands says art acts like an autobiography, “Being part of another generation shows that this can be visit library.guilford.edu. reaching out illustrating each facet of a person’s continued,” Gray says. “There can be another 12 women who from where its identity. Her work, “Junkanoo Rosa,” have the opportunity to do another show.” heart would quilts together her life experiences be. Each fabric as a Bahamian woman through the bit connects to a map of the United lens of the annual Bahamian festival holiday. Large shapes and

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